rc.d/SERVER patch for review (Reorder to make ldconfig start
_before_ SERVER)
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org
Wed Apr 19 09:37:00 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 17:02 +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> Hi, Florent,
>
> 在 2006-04-19三的 09:13 +0200,Florent Thoumie写道:
> [...]
> > I'd rather like seeing ports rc.d scripts fixed to require either DAEMON
> > or LOGIN, depending on if they should run as root or not.
> >
> > After my latest commit to rc.d/named, ldconfig is started right after
> > mountcritremote (means ASAP), so this change doesn't really do anything.
>
> I would prefer that SERVERS to do REQUIRE: ldconfig for the following
> reasons:
> - SERVERS is the place (or divider) where we can ensure, say, critical
> early services, can start properly. We should implement the semantic.
> - Currently SERVERS already have a REQUIRE: line pointing to abi, which
> is, in my opinion, of the same nature with ldconfig.
> - With "BEFORE: named" we can effectively make ldconfig to run after
> our script. While BEFORE is generally not encouraged, I think it's
> confusing for programmer who writes rc.d scripts, and makes it hard to
> debug.
>
> Therefore I think making SERVERS to REQUIRE: ldconfig makes better
> protection for early startup daemons.
Ok, that makes sense. Feel free to backout my named change.
--
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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